Name: Honey Roast Vegetables.
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 2 tbsp sherry – oloroso or other nutty sherry; 2 tbsp olive oil; ½ tsp pimento; 1 tbsp honey; salt and pepper; 2 medium carrots (peeled and cut into batons.); 2 medium parsnips (peeled and quartered); 2 medium potatoes (peeled and cut into wedges,); 1 large red onion (peeled and cut into wedges); ½ medium fennel (to taste. Cut into wedges. Keep leafy tops.); 2 medium beetroot (peeled and cut into wedges.); 3 cloves garlic – peeled and left whole; 2 sprigs thyme

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Delicious honey and sherry glazed roasted vegetables are the starting point for several different dishes. Cook once eat three times!

Aside from eat an extra portion of vegetables with every meal, one of my food mantras is cook once and eat at least twice. Meal prep can be boring and anything that can make it easier, especially after a busy day at work, and help you to eat a better diet has to be a good thing?

Roasted vegetables are one of my favourite ways to eat a variety of vegetables. They are fuss free, delicious; roasting caramelises the sugars in the veggies so they are nicely sweet, easy to prepare and are highly adaptable. Use what you have in the salad crisper and vegetable rack then every batch will be different. I try and keep a tub in the fridge (or freezer) all the time.

My latest batch of roasted vegetables used sherry – a vibrant mix of colours and flavours with an Oloroso, honey and pimento glaze. Sherry really doesn’t deserve its fusty image, gained from too-old bottles of overly sweet cream sherry mouldering away on dusty sideboards. There are few aperitifs better than a cool glass of crisp fino and a few salted almonds, and of course it makes an excellent ingredient too.

This simple dish is straightforward to put together, make a glaze with sherry, honey, oil, pimento and salt and pepper, and use it to coat your vegetables before roasting. My trick is the add the more robust vegetables to the pan and give it all a good shake, then pop the ones that might will apart – such as the fennel and onion – on top and use a pastry brush to coat with glaze. Pop on a couple of sprigs of thyme, and roast for about 50 minutes until the vegetables are sticky and cooked through.

Beetroot will discolour the other vegetables so roast them separately at one end of the roasting tin, like I did below. Make sure you use a large roasting tin you want the vegetables – not be piled up and steam. Give them plenty of room!

Serve these sherry roasted vegetables hot straight from the oven with rice or grains and some green vegetables, or as a salad topping. Make a roast vegetable hummus by whizzing leftovers into a dip with a can of chickpeas, a drizzle of olive oil and dollop of tahini. Add some stock and whizz into a delicious soup for the third way of serving.

Table of Contents

Tips and Tricks with Roast Vegetables
How to use up leftover roasted vegetables
Sherry Cocktails!
Matching Sherry and Food

Tips and Tricks with Roast Vegetables

Roast vegetables are a staple for me, here are my top tips and hacks

Mix it up – most vegetables will roast well

Root vegetables you can roast include – carrots, potato, sweet potato, parsnip, celeriac, kohlrabi, beetroot, turnip (rutabaga), suede, carrots, beets, onions and garlic

Other vegetables for roasting include – courgette (zucchini), squashes and pumpkin, bell pepper, aubergine (egg plant), cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus, Brussels sprouts

Cut into similar sized pieces and roast vegetables of a similar “hardness” together. To cut down on cooking time parboil root vegetables

Toss vegetable pieces in oil, season and roast in a hot oven, spread them out well in the roasting pan – they need space so they roast not steam. Once they start cooking and shrink down you can combine the trays

Enjoy as a main with a grain and green vegetable, or add to a salad

Make an unseasoned batch of butternut squash or pumpkin and freeze for use in smoothies

How to use up leftover roasted vegetables

Pop in a plastic pot and take to work for lunch

Blitz up with some chickpeas and make a hummus

Chop up and fry and add to a risotto

Make a chunky pasta sauce with them

Add stock and whizz up to make a delicious soup

Blitz then into sauces – tomato, pizza, white and cheese sauces all benefit from a portion of extra veg

Sherry Cocktails!

There are numerous different styles of sherry, and while each has its place, and can be enjoyed slightly chilled in the traditional style, it is nice to experiment and bring sherry up to date with some more modern sherry cocktails. One of our favourites is to drink it long, mixed with a good quality tonic water, ice, a slice of lemon and a sprig of thyme. So refreshing on a hot day to enjoy before dinner.

Matching Sherry and Food

There are so many different styles of sherry, from dry finos to sweet Pedro Ximénez that, as the tradition of eating tapas with sherry indicates, sherry pairs well with a wide range of food including vegetables

Almonds and Fino

Sardines and Manzanilla

A crisp Fino with Padron peppers or delicately flavoured white asparagus

Griddled mushrooms, artichokes or green asparagus with amontillado

Luscious Pedro Ximénez poured over vanilla ice cream

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Hearty, earthy and delicious honey and sherry glazed vegetables.

Honey Roast Vegetables.

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

50 mins

Total Time

1 hr

Delicious honey roasted vegetables are the starting point for several different dishes. Cook once eat several times!

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: Vegetables

Keyword: Honey Roast Vegetables, sherry glazed vegetables

Servings: 4 people

Calories: 257 kcal

Author: Helen Best-Shaw

Ingredients

2 tbsp sherry – oloroso or other nutty sherry
2 tbsp olive oil
½ tsp pimento
1 tbsp honey
salt and pepper
2 medium carrots peeled and cut into batons.
2 medium parsnips peeled and quartered
2 medium potatoes peeled and cut into wedges,
1 large red onion peeled and cut into wedges
½ medium fennel to taste. Cut into wedges. Keep leafy tops.
2 medium beetroot peeled and cut into wedges.
3 cloves garlic – peeled and left whole
2 sprigs thyme

Instructions

Preheat oven to 200ºC / Gas Mark 6 / 400ºF
Mix honey, olive oil, sherry, and pimento, and season with salt and pepper.
Place carrots, parsnips, potatoes, and garlic on a piece of baking parchment in a roasting pan, and coat with the oil and sherry mixture. Then add the fennel and onion wedges, taking care that they don’t fall apart.
Add the beetroot to one corner of the roasting pan, so as not to discolour all the other vegetables.
Place thyme on top.
Roast for 50 minutes.

Recipe Notes

Variations

Serve these honey roast vegetables hot, straight from the oven. They can be an accompaniment to roast meat or the main feature, with rice or grains and some green vegetables. Alternatively, use as a warm salad topping.
Make a roast vegetable hummus. Whizz leftovers into a dip with a can of chickpeas, a drizzle of olive oil and dollop of tahini.
Add some stock and whizz into a delicious soup for the third way of serving.More Tips and Tricks with Roast Vegetables

Hints & Tips

Mix it up – most vegetables will roast well. Root vegetables that roast well include carrots, potato, sweet potato, parsnip, celeriac, kohlrabi, beetroot, turnip, swede (rutabaga), beetroot, onions and garlic. Other vegetables for roasting include courgette (zucchini), squashes and pumpkin, bell peppers, aubergine (egg plant), cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus and Brussels sprouts.
Cut your veg into similar-sized pieces and roast vegetables of a similar "hardness" together. If you need to cut down on cooking time, parboil root vegetables.
Spread your veg out well in the roasting pan or pans – they need space so that they roast, not steam. If you need to use more than one pan, that's OK. Once they start cooking and shrink down you can combine the trays.
Roast beetroot separately to keep it from colouring the whole batch.
Make it vegan by using maple syrup instead of honey.

Nutrition Facts

Honey Roast Vegetables.

Amount Per Serving

Calories 257 Calories from Fat 63

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 7g 11%

Saturated Fat 1g 5%

Sodium 88mg 4%

Potassium 1131mg 32%

Total Carbohydrates 44g 15%

Dietary Fiber 9g 36%

Sugars 13g